Aika Nanao is a journalist, columnist, author, and television personality. She currently works as the general assignment reporter of the Nippon Television nightly news show "News Zero." The program is broadcasted nation-wide. Aika Nanao is always on location and reports live for breaking news stories.
She has covered six-party talks in Beijing, the realities of DPRK, Summits, as well as economic/business stories. She also has an extensive experience in covering natural disasters. Extremely talented in ENG/SNG skills, delivering adlib reports, with to-the-point expressions upon breaking news.
Aika Nanao is also a skilled narrator, with deep and clear velvety voice. She has done numerous voice-overs for TV ads and programs.
Aika Nanao has an international background, born in the U.S., having raised around the globe--Geneva, Switzerland, Seoul, Korea, Santiago, Chile, San Francisco and Washington D.C.--she speaks four languages; native in English and Japanese, fluent in French and Spanish.
Aika Nanao is also a prolific author/columnist. She has published a number of academic papers on various publications in Japan on Japanese animation, comic books, music, and movies. Along with her academic writing, she has also worked extensively as a freelance writer for commercial magazines, and contributes regularly as a columnist.
After graduating from Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in San Francisco, she entered the University of Tokyo and acquired B.A. in Media Studies and Cultural Studies.
She spent a year in Latin America, as an exchange student in Universidad Catolica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile.
After graduation from the University of Tokyo, she began working as a presenter for the breakfast radio show of Tokyo FM broadcasted nation-wide. She was the first woman in her 20s to host a breakfast radio show of the network key stations in Tokyo.